cosmographical
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In the past, most cosmographical theories were concocted by mathematicians sitting in quiet rooms and struggling with streams of abstractions.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the rooms in the Palazzo Vecchio, so called because the famous cosmographical timepiece, made about 1484 for Lorenzo de’ Medici by Lorenzo della Volpaia, stood there.
From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds
Chaucer’s Cosmology Chaucer wrote no poetical work having a cosmographical background as completely set forth as is that in Dante’s Divine Comedy or that in Milton’s Paradise Lost.
From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. Grimm
In fact, cosmographical science in the general opinion retrograded instead of advancing.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
We may read in several cosmographical manuscripts of that epoch, that the earth has the form of a cone or a top, its surface rising from south to north.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
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